Profit and principle: Hugo Grotius, natural rights theories and the rise of Dutch power in the East Indies, 1595-1615

CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 16
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
I The Life and Times of Hugo Grotius......Page 25
II Two Systems of International Relations......Page 28
III A Grotian Tradition in International Law?......Page 33
IV The Cambridge School of Political Thought......Page 39
V The Dutch East India Company and the People without History......Page 45
VI Grotius’ Political and Intellectual Collaboration with the VOC Directors: A Preview of the Argument......Page 54
VII A Note on the Text and Illustrations......Page 62
1.1 Introduction......Page 72
1.2 A Fruitless Voyage to the East......Page 78
1.3 In Defense of Freedom of Trade and Navigation......Page 91
1.4 The Capture of the Santa Catarina......Page 101
1.5 The Natural Right to Punish in Private and Public Wars......Page 114
2.1 Introduction......Page 124
I The Spanish Black Legend and the Dutch Revolt......Page 131
II The Dutch Editors of De Las Casas......Page 140
III Rhetorical Strategies in De Jure Praedae......Page 148
2.3 A Portuguese Conspiracy in the East Indies? Investigating the Sources of De Jure Praedae......Page 152
2.4 Humanist Ethics in De Jure Praedae......Page 169
2.5 Conclusion......Page 174
3.1 Introduction......Page 176
3.2 The Fruin Thesis......Page 185
3.3 The Capture of the St. Jago......Page 194
3.4 Challenging the Verdict of the Middelburg Admiralty Court: The Portuguese New Christians......Page 201
3.5 Challenging the Verdict of the Middelburg Admiralty Court: Francisco Carletti......Page 210
3.6 A French East India Company? Political Developments in Paris and The Hague, 1604–1606......Page 222
3.7 The Intended Audience of De Jure Praedae: Amsterdam Anabaptists or Dutch Regents?......Page 238
3.8 No Trade Without War: Two VOC Petitions Drafted by Hugo Grotius......Page 248
3.9 Conclusion......Page 258
4.1 Introduction......Page 260
4.2 Grotius and the Eight Months’ Armistice of April 1607......Page 265
4.3 Grotius and the Peace Negotiations of February to March 1608......Page 288
4.4 The Voyage of Willem Pieterszoon Verhoef to the East Indies (1607–1609)......Page 337
4.5 Conclusion......Page 350
5.1 Introduction......Page 354
5.2 VOC Pamphleteering in the Spring and Summer of 1608......Page 360
I Discourse in the Form of a Petition Regarding the Necessity of the Navigation to the East Indies, By Which Means the Free Dutch Provinces Will Attain the Greatest Prosperity......Page 366
II Statement of Important Reasons That Should Induce the Dutch Estates General Not to Withdraw from the Indies Trade and Navigation......Page 373
III Impartial Discussion of the Indies Trade......Page 382
IV The VOC and the War Party......Page 389
V Hugo Grotius and VOC Pamphleteering......Page 392
5.3 Hugo Grotius and the Truce Negotiations (August 1608–April 1609)......Page 402
5.4 Conclusion......Page 427
6.1 Introduction......Page 430
6.2 Grotius’ Justification of a Dutch Monopoly of the Spice Trade (I): Rights and Contract Theory at the Anglo-Dutch Colonial Conferences of 1613 and 1615......Page 442
6.3 Grotius’ Justification of a Dutch Monopoly of the Spice Trade (II): Historical Fact and Fiction at the Anglo-Dutch Colonial Conferences of 1613 and 1615......Page 467
I The Voyage of Henry Middleton to the Moluccas, 1604–1606......Page 471
II The Voyages of William Keeling and David Middleton to the Banda Islands, 1609–1610......Page 483
III John Saris Visits the Moluccas, February–May 1613......Page 507
IV John Jourdain Visits Ambon and Ceram, March–May 1613......Page 522
6.4 Conclusion......Page 552
EPILOGUE......Page 556
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 564
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 582
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 589